- From: Alexandre Passant <alex@seevl.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:01:36 +0000
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: public-linked-json@w3.org
Hi
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> On 01/18/12 15:05, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> On 01/18/12 12:10, Alexandre Passant wrote:
>>> It seems that @value is not rendered properly, e.g.
>>
>> Fixed:
>>
>> https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/commit/8b930458dac3e69ddef5bba6b716a6cd76dcaa9e
>
> After some discussion with Dave Longley, both of us feel that we should
> kill this feature. It overly complicates the number of ways that you can
> express a plain literal.
You mean killing the "bar" : { "@value": "foo" } feature, and allowing
it only it it comes together with a @type, @language or other
attribute ?
If so, the markup schema would change when one decide to add the
@language in an existing JSON-LD documents. JSON(non-LD) parser that
were using "bar" : "foo" will eventually not work anymore. So I'd
rather keep it for making things uniform and more easily extendable.
Best,
Alex.
>
> There is an argument that this should be valid: { "@value": "foo" }
>
> However, it does two things:
>
> 1. It complicates what developers have to deal with, now you can't just
> check to see if the value is a string for a plain literal... you have to
> check if it is a string, and if it isn't, you have to check to see if it
> is an object containing an "@value" key and only that key.
>
> 2. It complicates the expansion algorithm, instead of { "name": "foo" },
> expanded form ends up being {"name": { "@value": "foo"}}
>
> 3. The two items above thus complicate implementations.
>
> While it's perfectly logical to interpret { "@value": "foo" } as a plain
> literal, I don't think we should because it doesn't buy us anything
> other than more complexity. We should keep it simple... plain literals
> are expressed as strings in JSON-LD - always.
>
> -- manu
>
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